Position Title
Assistant Professor
Position Title
Assistant Professor
319 Young Hall
Office Hours
2024/2025: Wednesday 10am-noon (virtual) And by appointment
Bio
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University (2016)
- M.Phil, Anthropology, Columbia University (2012)
- B.A., UC Berkeley, (2007)
Research Focus
Theories of subjectivity, cultural memory and the unconscious, the political, violence, language (translation), representation, economy and value, aesthetics, modernity, Afghanistan and the Islamic World, critical and social theory, psychoanalysis, literature, political economy, and archival histories.
Teaching
- Anth 120: The Literary and Ethnographic Imagination
- Anth 125B: Postmodernism(s)
- Anth 132: Psychological Anthropology
- Anth 210: Forces of Language
- Anth 210: Enlightenment, Radiant: Calamity